Top 10 Startups developing AI for search

Updated: April 23, 2024

AI adds to search image recognition, big data pattern recognition, natural language understanding.
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Country: USA | Funding: $770.1M
AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $371M
Perplexity AI is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
3
Country: Canada | Funding: $339.8M
Coveo provides cloud-based AI-powered search and recommendations.
4
Country: France | Funding: $334.2M
A powerful hosted search engine API, Algolia provides product teams with the resources & tools they need to create fast, relevant search.
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Country: China | Funding: $252.8M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Country: USA | Funding: $159.1M
Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management. It uses AI to index and analyze enterprise data
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Country: USA | Funding: $155M
AI-powered workplace search across all your company's apps.
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Country: USA | Funding: $101M
Brain Technologies is an AI company that develops a generative interface allowing software to be in sync with its users' intentions.
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Country: USA | Funding: $77.5M
Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine that helps its users find exactly what matters to them.
10
Country: Israel | Funding: $71M
AnyClip is a video analytics platform that provides media companies with tools to analyze and catalog their video libraries.
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Country: USA | Funding: $46.1M
Reflektion understands and influences the intent of each customer in real time to deliver individualized content across touchpoints that matter most.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $45.6M
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
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Country: USA | Funding: $45M
You, a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages).
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Country: Israel | Funding: $35M
Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness — allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $34M
ViSenze develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.
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Country: USA | Funding: $31.1M
Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $27.1M
Twelve Labs is helping developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do.
18
Country: Germany | Funding: €12.2M
Nyris is an image search engine that is used as a software as a service.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10.8M
AI-powered search and recommendation engine for digital assets
20
Country: USA
Omnity is focused on highly efficient knowledge discovery. It uses AI to search for the “combination” or “intersection” of Paper 1 and Paper 2.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $9.8M
Оpen-source neural search engine making Deep Metric Learning practical to bring the applied AI to the next level.
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Country: UK | Funding: $9.3M
Pimloc's deep learning platform allows organisations to automatically ingest, detect, classify and protect diverse image and video content.
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Country: USA | Funding: $8.4M
searchable.ai is developing a new kind of personalized semantic search engine for work
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Country: Romania | Funding: $7.5M
Soleadify is a startup that uses machine learning to create profiles for businesses in any industry. The first of the company’s products is a business search engine that keeps over 40 million business profiles updated
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Country: USA | Funding: $6M
Dexa was created to address a bigger shift in how people consume material and search for things online.
26
Country: India | Funding: $905K
Vector site search engine built ground up using NLP for search relevance and AI based ranking. Zevi is today the leading search provider which can address multiple languages together (Spanish + English) etc with no translation layers.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €400K
Flaps develops no-code insight search for companies with files in different languages, formats, and data sources.
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Country: USA
Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. It too uses AI to search the academic literature and it is impressively fast.